CIL2008: Going Local in the Library

Presented by: Charles Lyons (Added)

Google's mission:

Organize the world's information 7 make it universally accessible & useful

Look at Google Sky

• Information on the Internet behaves differently whether it's local or global
• Google is doing well with putting local results into general search results

Real potential of local web is something deeper
or more 2.0
or more hyper local

Local web

• is diverse and includes search engines, maps, media, government data, blogs, social networks, and people
• is social - user generated, participatory, amateur, civic, grass roots, and citizen journalism

The local web is the joining of the real world and the virtual world

Look at handmaps.org

Local web is bringing a sense of place to the internet - are libraries? Yes, but we can do better.

• Create custom local search engines - mycommunityinfo.ca; Google Custom Search, Rollyo, Swicki
• Local blogging: Placeblogger, Blogdigger, metblogs: Create a local blog directory; on library blogs talk about community events - Darien Community Matters, Fort Wayne Area Artists
• Local News: Topix, Outside In, Your Street - Skokie Talk, Myhamilton.ca (Online communities as no libraries currently doing news solely) - We could use local news feeds on revised branch pages
• Local wikis - Loudounpedia, WikiNorthia
• Local Photos - geo tagging on Flickr. Subscribe to locally related tags. We already do good with Flickr, what can we do better - some ideas: create a HCPL Flickr group and let customers contribute photos. Ask branches to geo tag, which aids in mapping photos.
• Maps: Yahoo Map Mixer, Google Maps, Metacarta
• Create local guides: Guidespot, iNeighbors